Developer Relationship Lead

Upriver; Lead (SD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Upriver is seeking a DevRel Lead to shape and grow our developer ecosystem. You’ll represent the company at meetups, conferences, and community events, and create demos, samples, and hands-on tutorials that show engineers how to get value from day one.

You’ll engage with data and ML engineers, work with platform teams, and build the early community presence through content, workshops, and collaboration with industry leaders.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data engineering, ML engineering, or data science.
• Comfortable presenting, teaching, and breaking down complex technical concepts.
• Experience building demos, notebooks, blogs, or talks for developers.
• Proactive, community-minded, and excited to connect with engineers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Represent Upriver at meetups, conferences, panels, and community events.
• Create demos, samples, and hands-on tutorials that show how engineers can build with our platform and get value from day one.
• Engage deeply with data engineers, ML engineers, and platform teams, collecting insights and feeding them back into product.
• Build our early community presence through content, workshops, and collaboration with industry leaders.

Skills

Data engineering

ML engineering

Data science

Job description

Responsibilities

• Represent Upriver at meetups, conferences, panels, and community events.
• Create demos, samples, and hands-on tutorials that show how engineers can build with our platform and get value from day one.
• Engage deeply with data engineers, ML engineers, and platform teams, collecting insights and feeding them back into product.
• Build our early community presence through content, workshops, and collaboration with industry leaders.

Requirements

• Strong background in data engineering, ML engineering, or data science.
• Comfortable presenting, teaching, and breaking down complex technical concepts.
• Experience building demos, notebooks, blogs, or talks for developers.
• Proactive, community-minded, and excited to connect with engineers at scale.
• Based in SF or NY (preferred).

Why this is a rare opportunity

• Join an early, fast-growing startup defining a new category at the intersection of data engineering and AI.
• Build the entire Dev Rel function from scratch.
• Influence product direction based on real-world engineering challenges and community feedback.
• Be a visible voice in one of the most exciting shifts in the data/AI ecosystem.